Alt Text: How Monitoring Twitter Is Like Peeking Into Society's Bloodstream

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A team of computer-science researchers have reportedly discovered a way to use Twitter to figure out when you are going to catch a cold . Their application scans Twitter for telltale phrases — I’m guessing things like “How come nobody sells tissues at San Diego Comic-Con?” and “I’m so sick, I can barely lick all these doorknobs” — and uses them to map the progress of disease the way a weatherman ...

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